My BLOG on DIY, Hacking and notes
This includes mostly useful information for myself and my BLOG about various free time projects.
Which are currently mostly hardware and electronics hacks 
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Besides this I'm fully occupied with programming the final parts of MPL, extending my software generation tools such as the precompiler. And finishing my PhD thesis text which is about Creating the integrated programming environment Multi Precision Lab using source code generation tools.
First time visitors, people with comments or questions are welcome to sign my guestbook . Some of my projects in my blog hit the masses like www.hackaday.com featuring binary clock and makezine featuring my Wii-remote hack resulting in 10000 new visitors on the day they appeared in my blog. Cya and have a nice day 
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An electric kart!
Written by Walter on 06/03/2009 23:16:03.Hey well apart from all the other stuff (construction work, cctv camera supply repairment and some skating). Here is my new freetime project building our own electric kart together with Anthony Liekens!
We bought an old go-kart frame. First we fixed the brakes (the fluid had air bubbles) by bleeding them and replacing the oil. Then we bought and installed a new chair (since the original one was completely wrong installed).
After this we got a new motor mount. Now its a matter of getting the right batteries and me soldering a good controller and we're ready to go electric .
Click on the picture above to follow our progress on the electric kart blog
At the ends of the earth.
Written by Walter on 25/02/2009 05:40:48.Had a bit of a cold so stayed in bed only to wake up now in middle of the night caughing. Remembered a funny movie some Russian friends showed me in Hurghada. Decided to post it on my blog to give some of my Belgian friends a laugh too. It's called 'at the ends of the earth' and 'why why' is freely translated as 'allee allee'. I won't get into any social or political connections this might have in some countries and just look at it as a good slapstick cartoon from 1998 (that was resurrected on a film festival in 2005):
While digging into past short films. I have to post this one as one of my all time favorites. It's called 'More' and when I first saw this film I was a student full of ideas, inventions and dreams. Ten years later, after realizing how difficult it is to make any invention a product in todays market where large MOQ's apply. Big firms with large venture capitals are the only ones with enough power to hold a patent. There are enough obstacles in the way to scare any lonely inventor from revealing his ideas. So in short, I'm even more moved by this film today (I ended up just writing down most of my ideas for future reference). Here are some links to More:
More on youtube
And the official site is here happyproduct.com.
Egypt Construction Adventure
Written by Walter on 12/02/2009 03:27:25.After 3 weeks of stress and construction in Hurghada we are very pleased with the results. Two bathrooms are renovated, living room and terras with new tiles. Electricity fixed. Extra wall and door was placed in living room (to seperate from hallway) and outside door replaced with new door and new locks installed. Furnuture repainted. The original plan was to do it all in 2 weeks together with some egyptian tilers and plaster people.
before:
after:
This turned out to be quite an adventure. The bad : many things went wrong. We had to stay up many nights solving mistakes and correcting old stuff (like the electricity). Also new water mixers just broke but after replacing them with Ideal Standard mixers they worked fine. Then the locks went totally wrong (luckily I was able to fix that too the last day).
The good: We got to know the Egyptian culture a bit more than tourists. I even visited a real Egyptian wedding! This was the wedding of the sister of the egyptian contracters wife.
The contractor did rip us off a bit (which even resulted in me getting angry for the first time in many years because I heard he had not paid his workers yet which really got me pissed). But still we had a good time and after all is finished and done we put it in the past everyone got paid and we have a renovated villa in Hurghada now .
On the last 2 days I went skating with Tristan and we even found a new skatepark in El Gouna (not finished yet, the concrete was way too small and the ramp needed an extra layer of wood, also all coopings we're forgotten). Still I popped a trick and got a picture just to show the park exists
Anyway I put some pictures here in random order:
Egypt Renovation, Marriage and a little Skating